Category: Patent

As Enterprise Tech Buying Habits Change, Are You Ready?

Thomas Saueressig, SAP SE’s 32-year-old chief information officer, looks for commitment when evaluating vendor pitches. Technology firms that get his
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Research Shows More Innovation under a Joint Chairman/CEO

Many of us know people who struck it rich in an IPO and then decided to retire or take time
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Chinese Government Funds Global Telecom Roll Outs Through ZTE

With global uncertainty the norm, many carriers have struggled to get financing for new infrastructure projects and in fact they
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Amazon’s Evolving Views on Patents

In the 1990 patent suits in tech were quite infrequent but today, there is more news on international patents than
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Are Apple’s Patent Lawsuits Dead Right?

I have often referred to patents between large tech firms as mutually assured destruction as any of these companies can
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Not So Fast – Yes We Should Protect Innovation

The tech news of the day includes Google using its Motorola Mobility patents to sue Apple. Patent suits aren’t new
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V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai – Did He Invent E-Mail or Not?

I have to admit that I had never heard of V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai prior to meeting him recently in Boston
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Google+ Growth, Dropbox Killer: Google IS the Tech News

Google has entrenched itself is so many areas of tech they have become the technology news of the day. First
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Innovation Speed = (Moore’s Law*Metcalfe’s Law)/Patent Lawsuit Activity

Yesterday I was engaged in a conversation with TMC senior editor Peter Bernstein and we were discussing the pace of
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With Rypple Acquisition Salesforce on Track to be Cloud-Based Oracle

In the early nineties I was and SQL programmer in a market dominated by companies like Oracle and Informix. At
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